Senate TV campaign ad roundup

A slew of TV ads directed at David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz fired onto the airwaves Monday, each directing accusations against the personal integrity of the other.

The day started out fairly docile with the Dewhurst campaign’s ”Full Repeal,” a reiteration of the Lt. Governor’s stump speech of being a businessman who is willing to take Texas’s model for “reduced taxes” and “balanced budgets” to Washington, where he wants to end “Obamacare”.

An ad from the Texas Conservatives Fund, which supports Dewhurst, aimed at Cruz. In “Ted Cruz should be ashamed”, the TCF links Cruz to the death of the son of Sandy Fonzo, who was part of the Pennsylvania “kids for cash” scheme involving Robert Mericle. Children like Fronzo’s son were sent to a for-profit correctional facility in exchange for “kick backs” to the judges who sentenced them. Cruz was listed on a contract case involving Mericle and a private insurance provider and says he had no involvement in the criminal proceedings.

Cruz fired back with “At It Again.” In it, the Cruz campaign accuses Dewhurst of lying about supporting “amnesty” and “payroll taxes”, then being “caught”. The ad continues by saying Dewhurst is using “false character attacks to distract you from the truth”. You can expect plenty of ads to continue through the week, especially considering that Club for Growth announced monday that it is giving $574,000 to more airtime for Cruz.